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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






2. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






3. A four line stanza in a poem.






4. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






5. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






6. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






7. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






8. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






9. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






10. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






11. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






12. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






13. The main character of a literary work.






14. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






15. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






16. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






17. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






20. The time and place of a story or play.






21. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






22. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






23. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






25. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






26. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






27. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






28. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






29. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






30. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






31. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






32. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






33. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






34. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






35. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






36. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






37. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






38. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






39. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






40. A poem that tells a story.






41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






42. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






43. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






44. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






45. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






46. Broken down acts.






47. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






48. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






49. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






50. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.







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